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The 21st International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security
August 24
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August 27, 2026
ARES
The 21st International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES) will bring together researchers and practitioners in the areas of security, dependability, and privacy.
ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of dependability as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, integrity, maintainability, covering important aspects of security in different fields and applications.
ARES emphasizes the interplay between foundations and practical issues of dependability in important areas such as e-government, mobile applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, edge computing, confidential computing.
ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Dependable and Secure Computing and the definition of a future road map.
ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE. The acceptance rate of the ARES 2025 conference was 19,5% (full and SoK papers only).
ARES 2026 will be published by Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LCNS).
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IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, CONTACT THE CONFERENCE MANAGEMENT
ARES Conference Management
ares@sba-research.org
CONFERENCE OFFICERS
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
The success of ARES is fundamentally driven by its dedicated and engaged organizing committees and program committee members.
Monowar Bhuyan, Umea University
Mila Dalla Preda, University of Verona
Nicolás E. Díaz Ferreyra, Hamburg University of Technology
Virginia Franqueira, University of Kent
Sherman S. M. Chow, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Sven Peldszus, IT University of Copenhagen
Günther Pernul, Universität Regensburg
Jacob Torrey, Thinkst Applied Research
Shamik Sural, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Nora Boulahia-Cuppens, Polytechnique Montréal
Romain Laborde, Université de Toulouse
Jens Lindemann, Universität Hamburg
Massimo Merro, University of Verona, Italy
Hervais Simo, Fraunhofer SIT
Dorjan Hitaj, Sapienza University of Rome
Francesco Buccafurri, Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria
Andreas Unterweger, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences
Koen Yskout, KU Leuven
Olivier Levillain, Samovar, Télécom SudParis, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
Kallol Krishna Karmakar, Deakin University
Rodrigo Miani, Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU)
Lorena González Manzano, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Md Masoom Rabbani, Chalmers University of Technology
Karl M. Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology
Isaac Agudo, Network, Information and Computer Security Lab (NICS) at University of Malaga
Michele Ianni, UNICAL
Marina Krotofil, Maersk
Oksana Kulyk, IT University of Copenhagen
Ingmar Baumgart, Karlsruhe Institut of Technology (KIT)
Stylianos Karagiannis, Ionian University
Péter Hegedűs, University of Szeged
Gregory Blanc, Institut Mines-Télécom, Télécom SudParis, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
Zhenyu Ning, Hunan University
Ahmad Samer Wazan, Zayed University
Michael Rossberg, Technische Universitaet Ilmenau
Panagiotis Fouliras, University of Macedonia
Jorn Lapon, KU Leuven
Alessandro Brighente, University of Padova
Aymen Boudguiga, CEA LIST
Luca Caviglione, CNR - IMATI
Nesrine Kaaniche, Telecom SudParis
Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF Digital
Santiago Escobar, Universitat Politècnica de València
Lukas Malina, Brno University of Technology
Umberto Villano, University of Sannio
Christoforos Ntantogian, Ionian University - Department of Informatics
Federica Paci, University of Verona
Pedro Inácio, Universidade da Beira Interior
Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Technical University of Denmark
Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Hyoungshick Kim, Sungkyunkwan University
Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology
Thomas Gross, Newcastle University
Emilio Coppa, LUISS University
Francesco Mercaldo, University of Molise
Leandros Maglaras, Edinburgh Napier University
Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus
Stefan Katzenbeisser, University of Passau
Keith Martin, Information Security Group, Royal Holloway, University of London
Weizhi Meng, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Tiago Cruz, University of Coimbra
Saed Alrabaee, United Arab Emirates University
Jan Seedorf, HFT Stuttgart
Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology, Institute of Computer Science
Christian Reuter, TU Darmstadt, Science and Technology for Peace and Security (PEASEC)
Stephan Neumann, SaarLB
Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace
Joachim Meyer, Tel Aviv University
Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus
Jose Maria de Fuentes, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Silvio Ranise
Frederic Cuppens, Polytechnique Montreal
Golden G. Richard III
Shujun Li, University of Kent
Günther Eibl, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences/Josef Ressel Center for User-Centric Smart Grid Privacy, Security and Control
Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies
Riccardo Scandariato, Hamburg University of Technology
Raimundas Matulevicius, University of Tartu
Esma Aïmeur, University of Montreal
Miguel Pardal, Universidade de Lisboa
Peter Kieseberg, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences
Simon Tjoa, St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences
Maryline Laurent, Institut Mines-Telecom
Aleksandra Mileva, Faculty of Computer Science, University Goce Delcev
Giorgio Giacinto, University of Cagliari
Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany
Bjorn De Sutter, Ghent University
Junghwan Rhee, University of Central Oklahoma
Dominik Herrmann, University of Bamberg
Nazatul Haque Sultan, University of Newcastle
Olivier Blazy, Ecole Polytechnique
Christian Engelmann, ORNL
Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno
Magnus Almgren, Chalmers University of Technology
Sergio Pastrana, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Marie-Laure Potet, Laboratoire Vérimag
Jordi Castellà-Roca, Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Katja Tuma, Eindhoven University of Technology
Joern-Marc Schmidt, IU Internationale Hochschule GmbH
Zhen Huang, DePaul University
Marijke Coetzee, North-West University
Krzysztof Cabaj, Warsaw University of Technology
Thomas Rosenstatter, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences
Michael Meier, University of Bonn, Fraunhofer FKIE
Michel Cukier, University of Maryland
Mariano Ceccato, University of Verona
Christoph Saatjohann, FH Muenster
Pierangela Samarati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Morteza Safaei Pour, San Diego State University
Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg
Marta Catillo, Università del Sannio
Steven Furnell, University of Nottingham
Per Håkon Meland, SINTEF Digital
Todd Andel, University of South Alabama
Laurens D'hooge, Ghent University, imec-IDLab
Rudolf Mayer, Vienna University of Technology
Corrado Aaron Visaggio, University of Foggia
Ulrik Franke, Swedish Defence University
Rene Rydhof Hansen, Aalborg University
Christian Gehrmann, Lund University
Deadlines
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Include, but are not limited to
Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control
Automated Vulnerability Repair
Availability, Confidentiality, Integrity
Botnets and Botnet Monitoring
Cloud Security
Compliance, Certification and Legal aspects related to Security and Privacy
Digital Forensics
Human Factors in Security and Privacy
Identity Management
Incident Response
Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection
Machine Learning for Security and Privacy
Security and Privacy for Machine Learning
Offensive AI
Mobile Security
Network Security
Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs)
Process based Security Models and Methods
Risk analysis
Side Channel Attacks
Software Security
Static and Dynamic Code Analysis for Security and Privacy
Security and Privacy for IoT and Cyber-Physical Systems
Resilience in Critical Infrastructures
Security and Privacy Awareness
Security by Design
Threats and Attack Modelling
Trusted Computing
Trust Models and Trust Management
Usable Security and Privacy
Web Application Security and Privacy
Submission
Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines.
Call for Workshops 01/01
Call for ARES Workshops 2026
The 21st International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2026) will take place at Linköping University on 24-27 August 2026. In addition to the main conference, we invite proposals for workshops. ARES Workshops offer an excellent forum for researchers to connect, exchange ideas, and discuss focused and emerging topics in the areas of security, dependability, and privacy. Accepted papers in workshops will be published in proceedings by Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LCNS).
ARES CONFERENCE
ARES will bring together researchers and practitioners in the areas of security, dependability, and privacy. ARES highlights the various aspects of dependability – with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. The acceptance rate of the ARES 2025 conference was 19,5% (full and SoK papers only). ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE.
Workshop Proposal Submission
Each workshop proposal needs to be submitted by February 16, 2026. The workshop chairs will then decide if a workshop will be accepted.
Proposals need to include:
- Title of the workshop
- Name and affiliation (incl. country) of workshop chairs
- Main contact person with mobile number
- Short description - why the workshop is a good addition to the conference
- Planned review process (only necessary for new workshops)
- Call for Papers (use Template CfP Workshop) incl.:
- A preliminary list of potential program committee members (stating full name, affiliation, and country)
At least one Workshop Chair needs to attend the conference in person! The deadline for the Workshop registration is June 13, 2026.
Important Dates for submission of Workshop papers
- Submission Deadline: No later than May 18, 2026
- Author notification: No later than June 01, 2026
- Camera Ready Upload: June 13, 2026
- Conference: August 24- 27, 2026
Important General Information
The acceptance rate of submitted papers must be less than 50%. If workshop organizers want to be allowed to co-author papers to be published in the proceedings, a proper procedure to avoid conflicts of interest in the peer review process needs to be agreed upon in advance with the ARES general chairs, workshop chairs, and PC chairs. This includes general oversight by the workshop chairs over the selection process of the reviewers, the reviews, and the paper selection process, including a check for conflict of interests between authors and reviewers according to the ARES guidelines.
Furthermore, the ratio of accepted papers co-authored by workshop co-organizers must not exceed 20%.
Date and Sessions
Workshops might be held on day one or day four of the ARES conference. Please note that we cannot guarantee a certain date for your workshop. If you already are aware of time constraints, please let us know. Send information to ares@sba-research.org. The number of sessions for each workshop depends on the number of accepted papers and will be approved by the organizers on June 13, 2026; each session lasts 1,5h.
Submission
Please submit your workshop proposal until February 16, 2026 (use Template CfP Workshop) via email to ares@sba-research.org. Please check the topics of existing workshops before submitting your proposal: https://2025.ares-conference.eu/program/workshops/
PLEASE NOTE
All workshops need to act in accordance to the ARES workshop rules and regulations. Rules and Regulations need to be signed for each accepted workshop by at least one workshop chair and sent to ares@sba-research.org.